Blog Award ;-)

Hi my crafty friends! I am so excited because my wonderful friend Amy-The Redheaded Crafter has passed this awesome blog award onto me! I am so honored, and I am so excited that Amy thought of me! Thank you so much Amy!!!!! :-) You truly inspire me everytime I go to your blog!!! You are  truly a wonderful blogging friend that I could ever ask for!  You  always leave me encouraging  comments on everything, and you always inspires me with your amazing creations!  Please go and check her blog out you won't be disappointed!!  It's a really cute award too, and I just love the butterfly and the purple and green colors!! 

Here are the terms under which this 'Green Blend Award" are to be given.

1.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who has helped your blog in any and all ways.

2.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who has cheered you along in your blog building, craft advancing career.

3.) This award is for any co-blogging friend who always stops by and is kind to you. you can count on them to always be one of the great comments at the end of your posts.

4.) This award is to be given to 3 to 5 Blends whom you feel meet the listed requirements.

5.) Create a post with the terms of use and publish your Blends of Choice.

6.) Blend of choice may copy the award from your blog and proudly post it on theirs.

7.) Blend of choice may continue the kindness by issuing this award to keep the circle forever growing.

I'm passing this wonderful award onto:

http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/

http://vickiesscrappings.blogspot.com/

http://craftmeaway.blogspot.com/

http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/

http://www.scrapcavecreations.com/

http://queenscardcastle.blogspot.com/

These ladies are so encouraging to me and my blog!!  Thank you my friends for encouraging me and my projects!!  You are all awesome!!!!  I also want to thank the ladies who don't have a blog, and they are the ladies from the former Cricut Crafting Friends thread.  We all have been a great support to each other and have made super friendships!!!  Thanks my friends!!! Hugs!!!

Button Challenge Layout

Hi Crafty friends!  Brenda here from Friends Craftin With Friends, the design team was asked to make a project using at least one button for Sweet Sassy Diva.  I wanted to do a layout of our newest grand daughter that was born on her Papaw's birthday.  So I started off with a crude, and I mean crude sketch. Yeah, I'm no artist! lol But it was something to give me a starting point.

Then I decided to make it a double page layout and I got the idea to punch my paper using a Martha Steward around the page punch. I also used the ticket punch from SU.

So I printed my paper that I wanted to punch and started punching.  But......

....the punching didn't work out so well for me. lol  I didn't want to waste the paper that I had already printed so I trimmed off the botched punching making my paper size 10 1/4 by 10 1/4.  Punched again and only had one little boo boo this time.  I can live with that, I can always hide it with an embellishment.

So with a smaller punched paper I had to add another paper cut down to 11 x 11 inch and I printed that a solid color of green.  Layered it with my base and my top layer.  Ok that is working alright-not what I had in mind but it is working.  Next I printed and cut the images that I wanted to use from my Imagine using Nursery Tails. I also printed my pics I wanted to use too.  I played around with my images and buttons for a while.

I finally had to go with just two pics and I also didn't use all my embellishments.  Here is how the finished layout turned out. I didn't fill out all the info on our grand daughter since it was on the internet. Over all I am pretty pleased with it after all the problems I had getting going.  It isn't how I envisioned it with the sketch, but I made the most out of my mistakes and I am ok with it now.  Always try to take your mistakes and turn them into something you can use.  It is always worth a try!!

Keep Smiling

Hi my crafty friends, hope all is well in your neck of the woods.  Here is a card I made for a young woman going through some health issues.  We wanted to encourage her and make her smile.  So I stamped this basket of tulips and colored them in with alcohol markers.  I definitely need lots of practice and need to watch some vidos on how the use them properly, but it looks ok as it was a small image.  Don't notice that I don't know what the heck I am doing with them. lol  The stamp sets are from Paper Trey Ink and My Creative Time, paper is from my stash, I think the pattern paper is from DCVW Citrus Stack, and an EK Success Punch.  Hope you enjoy and as always I love your comments and thank you for them! You are all so awesome!

Asking a favor....

My friend, Suzanne from Cricut Craftin Grammy is trying to reach 500 followers by her birthday March 10th. If she gets to 500 followers by the 10th she will be giving away 3 $10 gift cards as blog candy.  She has some awesome, awesome crafty goodness on her blog, so check her out and it would be a special favor to me if you would follow her.  Trust me my friends, you can't go wrong following Suzanne and I don't think you will be disappointed either!!  Thanks my crafty friends!! Now back to your regular scheduled program....

Pool Invite

Hi Crafty friends, this week the DT was asked to make an invitation of any kind.  I thought about this for a while and while searching my Gypsy I saw that I started to make an invitation one time for a pool party for my son, but then he decided he didn't want to have one.  So I went with that idea.  I took the sunglasses from Forever Young and welded two shadow shapes together to make a shaped card.

I used white card stock for the shadow base of my card and then cut out the top layer out of black card stock.  I would have chosen a red, pink or turquoise blue for myself-but if I ever use this for DS he won't go for any of those colors!! lol  So black it is!

I was going to do the next layer with the cut outs at the corner, but decided that it looked too girly so I just cut out the lens layer next.  I cut that layer out in pool water paper so it looked like the water was reflecting in the glass lenses. I cut out "pool party" out of the cart Street Signs and stamped "your invited" using a Paper Trey Ink stamp.  Before gluing down "pool party" I put glossy accents all over both lenses so they looked shiny like lenses should.  After it dried, I glued on "pool party" added some bling because it just needed something a little girly-ok now I won't be able to use for DS unless we use plain for the guys and blinged out for the girls. I also doodled on my font sentiment. Yeah, not a great doodler. lol

I made the invitation so it would fit into a #10 (business size) envie. Now it is ready for DS to hand deliver.  If you are going to mail I wouldn't use the bling as it would coast extra to mail it.  Isn't this a cute invite?!!  We love to have people over to BBQ and swim in the pool during the summer so what better way to send out an invite for the pool!

Sizes:  shadow base: 8.90 wide x 5.58 height

base layer: 8.73 wide x 2.82 height

lens layer: 6.02 wide x 2.82 height

Pool Party font: 1.50

Enjoy seeing all the different invites this week, I know they are all going to be awesome!!!

Kissing Ball

Hi Crafty friends, Brenda here from Friends Craftin with Friends.  This week on Sweet Sassy Diva the DT was asked to make something fun, no layouts, no cards.  So after thinking about it for a while I decided that I wanted to make a kissing ball.  I started with a 5" styrofoam ball.  Picked out my paper-old stack in my stash that was called Love Letters from Little Yellow Bicycle and then deciding on what flowers I wanted to use on my kissing ball.  I decided on some spiral flowers from the Flower Shoppe, the spiral on page 12, the spiral on page 13 and the spiral on page 15.  I my flowers at 2.25, 2.50 and 2.75.

There are around 160-170 flowers on my ball.  So I started cutting and rolling flowers, and cutting and rolling.

I placed a piece of ribbon on my ball for my hanger using to straight pins with heads. After having a pile of flowers done, I started gluing them onto my ball. 

Taking care to get them as close to each other as possible, I kept working around and up the ball. After I got to the top I glued flowers to each side of the ribbon hanger making sure to glue tight up against it so the pins wouldn't show.

Here it is with all the flowers in place.  Now I thought that I would add a heart from the Sweethearts Cart, with the lips from Hannah Montana and the "muwah" from Smiley Cards.  I glued this to the side of the kissing ball. Then I took some pink twine and punched to hearts using some old Creative Memories punches.  I sandwiched the twine between the hearts and glued the other end in a crack of the kissing ball on the bottom.  Here it is handing from my ceiling.  Sorry about the pics getting out of order, I'm not sure how to fix it. lol  One more thing I need to learn!  Thanks for joing us here at Sweet Sassy Diva, be sure to keep checking in to see lots of inspiration from our fabulous design team, you won't be disappointed! You may even walk away with some inspiration!

Cards for Emily Day 2 Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Cards for Emily Blog Hop Day 2!!!

This is a 2 day hop so be sure to go back to Day 1 to hop through yesterday's posts for some more inspiration! :)
If you came from Beckie - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/ then you are at the right place! If you just happened across my blog and are interested in participating then start back at the beginning at Michelle's blog at Scrappin' For Kenzie!

Emily is a sweet little 6 year old girl that has battled Leukemia since before Chrstmas 2011. She has had to endure more pain in a few short months than most adults in their entire life. She has gone from Leukemia to Rotavirus, to pancreatitis, to kidney stones, then to shingles, not to mention over 300 pokes in her tiny little body! From chemo to blood draws to feeding tube. Her bone marrow is finally at 0.00% so she is now in remission and back at home! She is still going through 7 different chemotherapy treatments but is finally doing better! To read her full story and updates please visit the original Cards for Emily info post HERE

For this hop all we ask is that you hop through the list, then when you are done, link up your card for Emily back at Michelle's blog at Scrappin' For Kenzie. The link up tool is in the left hand side bar under "Cards for Emily". You will see her picture right above it.

REMEMBER: There is no requirement to leave comments or even hop through all of the blogs if you don't have time. There will be no personal candy at any of the stops along the way. That way you can get maximum inspiration to make your own card and have enough time to link it up and send it away!

There WILL be however a giveaway to one lucky winner that links up their card by February 29th 2012. You can link up as many cards/projects that you would like. The more you link up and send the more greater your chance is of winning a.....

$20 gift certificate to

 Their etsy store has over 100 stamps to choose from!

Now on to my card for Emily!

My card base came from Birthday Bash and my wagon and sentiment came from Just Because Cart  I inked my sentiment with Tim Holtz distress ink, Vinage Photo. I used white stickles on "pulling" and "you" on the sentiment and the highlight on the wagon. I think I will add a bow on it yet, it just looks like something is missing. lol  I think that will finish it off then.

Thank you sooooo much for joining us in this great cause for Cards For Emily!! We REALLY REALLY hope you will participate and link up your card to put a smile on this very beautiful, very deserving little girl that Michelle is honored to call her niece. :)
Your next hop in the line up for day 2 is Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Happy Scrapping! Hope to see your card soon!

Here is the line-up for Day 2 in case you get lost along the way!

Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com
Faith Abigail - http://www.faithabigaildesigns.com/
Amanda - http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://lisascreativeniche.blogspot.com/
Elizabeth - http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/
Marie -  http://ethansimprints.blogspot.com/
Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Tina - http://www.teenabugg.blogspot.com/
Beckie - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com/
Brenda - http://friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/
Jessie - http://edoggsugarlipsandprincessbuttercup.blogspot.com/

Visit Michelle when you are all the way through or jump here now to link up your card!
Michelle - http://scrappinforkenzie.blogspot.com